Try this!!!

[Aayam Gupta]

The EASY WAY
Swipe halfway to the app list...(without lifting your finger from the halfway swipe) swipe down your finger to the hardware keys

 

[D M C]

Weird
This is what happen in my phone


then I realized than I can even scroll under this this



This is amazing.
I didn't know that MS also added this feature in WP

 

[Wam1q]

Nothing happens on my Lumia 1020 with 8.1.1

 

[MDK22]

It appears when you touch the screen, it activates scroll (left / right) for the WHOLE screen, kinda overrides the hardware buttons.

Works as described on my Lumia 1520 w CYAN & Dev Preview update 1 (GDR1 ?)

 

[anoop s]

working,..! L 520 wp8.1.1

 

[SAM 77]

Pretty pointless but funny at the same time

 

[Pushynachan]

Worked

 

[uselessrobot]

It took me a while to realize what I was looking at. Interestingly, it doesn't happen in WP 8.0, only 8.1.

 

[Lance_WPCentral]

Worked on my L1320 running Cyan 8.1 . Its a silly thing but interesting find. :smile:

 

[pesanur]

Worked in my L820 with Cyan.

 

[viswanathansri]

I knew this a bit before ... I always suspected that the capacitive buttons had some kind of touch response to the screen .. You seem to confirm it . Also when scrolling down , don't take you finger off the screen and scroll till the bottom of the screen and continue into the capacitive buttons area and you will find that scroll reacts to your fingers moving on the capacitive buttons ( black area below the screen ) . Tested on L520 .

 

[PipoDj]

Waaaay to much time... LOL
anyway tried it and it works. It doesn't do anything really. Just a little novelty i think

 

[abhinavsaprey]

It took me a while to realize what I was looking at. Interestingly, it doesn't happen in WP 8.0, only 8.1.

It happened in WP 8.0 too... I tested it while I was running Lumia Black...

 

[abhinavsaprey]

I knew this a bit before ... I always suspected that the capacitive buttons had some kind of touch response to the screen .. You seem to confirm it . Also when scrolling down , don't take you finger off the screen and scroll till the bottom of the screen and continue into the capacitive buttons area and you will find that scroll reacts to your fingers moving on the capacitive buttons ( black area below the screen ) . Tested on L520 .

Yes... It appears as we have a full touch panel below the actual screen....

 

[Karthik Naik]

holy!! it actually works!! neat feature!!

 

[Tuan Vu Van]

Tested 8x with 8.1 preview. Nothing happened when swiping across the hardware buttons.

 

[RumoredNow]

1520.3

Official 8.1 + Lumia Cyan (no P4D)

​Nothing happened during several attempts.

 

[Pushynachan]

L520 DP8.1 works for me.